How Pro-Life Presidents Should Defend the Unborn
by C. C. PecknoldIf a candidate claims to be pro-life and seeks the votes of pro-lifers, his or her mandate should be clear: Be bold for life. Continue Reading »
Lincoln Lost, Douglas Won
by Allen C. GuelzoEveryone on that hot, dusty August afternoon in 1858 in the square at Ottawa, Illinois, knew who one of the men on the platform was. That man was Stephen Arnold Douglas, the senior U.S. senator from Illinois whose seat was up for re-election that year. Although Douglas stood only . . . . Continue Reading »
Covering Antietam
by Peter WoodArtifacts and images of the Civil War touch something deep in the American soul. Continue Reading »
Abraham Lincoln, Matchmaker
by Peter WoodIf Only…A Love Story is a new play by Thomas Klingenstein, now playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village. Continue Reading »
Redeeming Lincoln
by Jonathan WhiteIn recent decades, Abraham Lincoln’s reputation has not fared particularly well in the black community. Ebony magazine editor Lerone Bennett, Jr., famously argued that Lincoln was a proslavery white supremacist, while Julius Lester wrote that African Americans “have no reason to feel grateful to Abraham Lincoln. Rather, they should be angry at him.”
Letters
by VariousDEFENDING ORTHODOXYMykhailo Cherenkov’s pain and anger are deeply personal (“Orthodox Terrorism,” May). Anti-Ukrainian separatists have occupied the Baptist university that he used to head in Donetsk. They have also taken over forty Protestant churches in eastern Ukraine and have killed or . . . . Continue Reading »
The Great Interpreter
by Michael Stokes Paulsen and Luke PaulsenThe single most important event of constitutional interpretation in American history was the Civil War. The war was, of course, so much more than simply an act of constitutional interpretation. Fought from 1861 to 1865, it was the most devastating war in America’s history, resulting in the deaths . . . . Continue Reading »
Lincoln on Judicial Despotism
by Robert P. GeorgeAfter the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education ordering the desegregation of public schools in Topeka, Kansas, lawsuits promptly were brought to dismantle legally sanctioned segregation in other states. One of these was Arkansas. There, Governor Orville Faubus and . . . . Continue Reading »
Christian Conviction & Democratic Etiquette
by George WeigelAccording to a bit of street wisdom that has worked its way into the national vocabulary, “You got to walk the walk, not just talk the talk.” But since the opposite of everything is frequently, if not always, true, we might, on the matter of explicitly Christian rhetoric and the American public . . . . Continue Reading »
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